Ezra 8:18

Webster's Bible (1833)

According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen;

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  • Ezra 7:28 : 28 and has extended loving kindness to me before the king, and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty princes. I was strengthened according to the hand of Yahweh my God on me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
  • 1 Chr 6:19 : 19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' [houses].
  • Ezra 7:6 : 6 this Ezra went up from Babylon: and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Yahweh his God on him.
  • Neh 2:8 : 8 and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which appertains to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. The king granted me, according to the good hand of my God on me.
  • Ezra 8:22 : 22 For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.
  • Jer 3:15 : 15 and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
  • Dan 1:20 : 20 In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.
  • 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
  • Ezra 8:24 : 24 Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,
  • Num 3:20 : 20 The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.
  • Neh 8:7 : 7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people [stood] in their place.
  • Neh 9:4-5 : 4 Then stood up on the stairs of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, [and] Chenani, and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God. 5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, [and] Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting; and blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
  • Neh 10:12 : 12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
  • Neh 12:24 : 24 The chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers over against them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.
  • Prov 3:6 : 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, And he will direct your paths.
  • Prov 24:3 : 3 Through wisdom a house is built; By understanding it is established;
  • Ezra 8:16 : 16 Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, who were teachers.

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  • Ezra 8:19-20
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    19and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;

    20and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim: all of them were mentioned by name.

  • Ezra 8:11-17
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    11Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.

    12Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him one hundred ten males.

    13Of the sons of Adonikam, [who were] the last; and these are their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them sixty males.

    14Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.

    15I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

    16Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, who were teachers.

    17I sent them forth to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should tell Iddo, [and] his brothers the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.

  • Ezra 8:24-25
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    24Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,

    25and weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, and his counselors, and his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered:

  • Ezra 8:30-33
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    30So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.

    31Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth [day] of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.

    32We came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.

    33On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levite;

  • 1 Chr 26:9
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    9Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, valiant men, eighteen.

  • Ezra 1:8
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    8even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

  • Neh 8:7-8
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    7Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people [stood] in their place.

    8They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.

  • 1 Chr 25:25
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    25for the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons and his brothers, twelve:

  • Ezra 7:28
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    28and has extended loving kindness to me before the king, and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty princes. I was strengthened according to the hand of Yahweh my God on me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

  • Ezra 8:22
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    22For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.

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  • Neh 12:36
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    36and his brothers, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them.

  • Ezra 2:2
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    2who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

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    12and their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,

  • 1 Chr 9:13-14
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    13and their brothers, heads of their fathers' houses, one thousand seven hundred sixty; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.

    14Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;

  • 2 Chr 17:8
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    8and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.

  • Neh 2:18
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    18I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king's words that he had spoken to me. They said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for the good [work].

  • 1 Chr 15:18
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    18and with them their brothers of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.

  • Ezra 8:1
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    1Now these are the heads of their fathers' [houses], and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:

  • Ezra 8:5
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    5Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.

  • Neh 12:18
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    18of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;

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  • Ezra 8:8
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    8Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael; and with him eighty males.

  • Ezra 8:36
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    36They delivered the king's commissions to the king's satraps, and to the governors beyond the River: and they furthered the people and the house of God.

  • Neh 11:14
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    14and their brothers, mighty men of valor, one hundred twenty-eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim.

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    8and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which appertains to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. The king granted me, according to the good hand of my God on me.

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    8Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, [and] Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving, he and his brothers.

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    24and Hananiah, and Elam, and Anthothijah,

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    12Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,

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    3Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males one hundred fifty.

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    16and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God;

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    18the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brothers, twelve:

  • 1 Chr 8:18
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    18and Ishmerai, and Izliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal,

  • 1 Chr 25:7
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    7The number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in singing to Yahweh, even all who were skillful, was two hundred eighty-eight.